Schwarzenegger said Thursday he took time out from a movie shoot to address Gov. Jerry Brown’s climate conference at the California Academy of Sciences.

While in office, the former governor frequently promoted California’s landmark 2006 global warming law, called AB32, which paved the way for the state’s cap-and-trade system for controlling greenhouse gas emissions by the worst polluters.

Schwarzenegger said the Fremont, Calif.-based solar panel maker that went under despite a half-billion dollar government loan did the best it could but made business mistakes that led to its demise.

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Yes, how narrowminded to object to a $500 million wealth transfer by the American people to a bunch of people with no business sense but plenty of political savvy. And the worst of it is that people with ideas of how to be truly competitive in that industry had to compete against subsidized buffoons…which makes it all that much more difficult.

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